Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained (a Spaghetti Western) scheduled for release Christmas 2012

There were periods where Africans outnumbered whites like 2/3:1 in slave territories, get y'all history straight.

At mid-century, the populations around Chesapeake Bay were about 40 percent slave, and slaves outnumbered whites in South Carolina by two to one.
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Thats when a lot of slave revolts were popping off and laws were made to balance the demographic and "importation" of Africans.

Those laws are the foundation for today's inequitable immigration laws.
 
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The funny thing is the Nat Turner story was not a rare occurrence, there were dozens of significant "slave" rebellions in the U.S..

Those are the stories are that are rarely told.

The harsh slave codes of the South actually came about because rebellions were becoming such a common occurrence.

Aside from the difficulties inherent in successful pulling off these revolts, there were a lot of Sam Jackson's around to foil things....still is.


Gloucester County, Virginia--Sept. 1663--This was the first major conspiracy for a possible slave rebellion. The plot by black slaves and white indentured servants was betrayed to the authorities. Several plotters were beheaded.

New York City Slave Rebellion--1712--25 slaves armed with guns and clubs burned down houses on the northern edge of New York City and killed nine whites. The rebels were killed after soldiers arrived. The repercussions of this rebellion resulted in the tortuous execution of 18 participants in the rebellion.

Cato's Conspiracy/Stono Rebellion--1739--Approximately 80 slaves armed themselves and attempted to march toward Spanish Florida from their home area of Stono, South Carolina. When confronted by a group of white militia, a battle ensued. Forty-four blacks and twenty-one whites perished.

New York Conspiracy--March and April, 1741-- Thirty-one slaves and four whites were executed as a result of rumors of a major slave rebellion in New York City. It is unknown whether these rumors were based on fact or were part of a larger paranoia which existed regarding slave uprisings.

Gabriel Prosser's Rebellion--1800--Gabriel Prosser, a blacksmith, and his brother Martin, a slave preacher, planned a major rebellion in Virginia. They recruited at least a thousand slaves to their cause and built up a secret cache of weapons in anticipation of marching on the state capital of Richmond. When the day of the revolt arrived though, a violent storm washed out the roads and bridges leading to Richmond. The rebels broke up and Prosser was betrayed by one of his followers. The state militia captured Prosser and he and many of his followers were hanged.

Slave rebellion in St. John the Baptist Parish --Jan 8-10, 1811-- Slave rebellion in Louisiana in which 500 slaves took part and 100 were killed. Louisiana had only recently joined the United States after the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.

Fort Blount--1816--Three hundred fugitive slaves and Florida Indians battled U.S. Army troops at Apalachicola Bay in Florida. :smokin :smokin :smokin

Denmark Vesey's Uprising--1822--Vesey, a free black man living in South Carolina, detested slavery and took great inspiration from stories of Israelite freedom from bondage in the Bible. He began organizing for a major rebellion which would take place in 1822 in the city of Charleston. He and his followers organized into small cells, independent of each other. This way, of a single cell were detected by the authorities, the other rebel cells could survive.

His plan was rather simple. Armed slaves would position themselves outside the houses of whites at night. Then, other slaves would start a major fire in the city. When the white men exited their homes to fight the fire, the slaves would kill them.

Unfortunately for Vesey and his followers, someone betrayed them before they could launch the attack. One of Vesey's companions, who knew the whole plan, turned him in to the authorities. Vesey and the other leaders were hung, but the immensity and ingenuity of the plot terrified southern slave owners.

Nat Turner's Revolt--August, 1831--Nat Turner's rebellion was the most successful of all slave revolts. Turner, a slave preacher, inspired fellow slaves with his apocalyptic visions of white and black angels fighting in heaven. He gathered up his seven original followers and, without the organization or planning of Prosser and Vesey, launched his rebellion by entering his owner's home and killing the entire family, save for a small infant. They moved from one farm to the next, killing all slave-owning whites they found. As they progressed through Southampton county, other slaves joined in the rebellion. The next day, Turner and his eighty followers were intercepted by the state militia. In the confrontation that followed, Turner escaped and remained free for nearly two months. In those two months though, the militia and white vigilantes instituted a reign of terror over slaves in the region. Hundreds of blacks were killed. White Virginians panicked over fears of a larger slave revolt and soon instituted more restrictive laws regulating slave life. Turner was eventually captured and hung.
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Sam Jackson was hilarious.

Leo da gawd. :pimp:

Christoph money one liners.

Foxx was badass.

Kerry was beautiful.

Fantastic movie, lived up to my expectations. Could of been shorter, but I didn't mind it.
 
if you expected to learn anything about African-Americans or slavery or race relations in general in a Quentin Tarantino movie, then i feel sorry for your education, public or private

Its a movie, written by a high school dropout who gets hard-ons from black culture, as he has stated in not so many words during his career

sit back and enjoy it or say its garbage then move on
 
FlacoBey said:
Didn't really enjoy it like everyone else. Idk maybe I need to see it again.
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I didn't think it was as great as everyone is making it out to be either.

That Pac scene was the truth and there were a couple startling depictions here and there (no spoilers) other than that it was just a well done shoot em up in a provocative era IMO.

I thought Inglorious Basterds was a much more layered and poignant film.

Very solid and enjoyable movie, though.
 
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just came back from the theater 

dope ***** movie 
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sam jackson was top notch

and the scene with jonah hill and the kkk mask

had everybody in the theater laughing 

had me in tears 
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it was only two scenes that was not easy to watch but im already aware of 

the nature of the film and the time frame the story takes place

I guess spike lee would want a film that shows the harsh realities 

of slavery and not make light of it as he see fit

then dude should just go off and make that movie
 
Yeah I agree Inglorious Bastards was a lot more interesting to me.

I really like the last 20-30 minutes of the movie but besides that I got bored with it. I honestly expected a lot more, from all the hype it's getting.

It was just a good movie to me.
 
Loved it. 

Probably my favorite of the year.

You could tell Tarantino missed Sally Menke, who had edited all of his films until this one since she died a few years ago, because it wasn't as smooth and evenly paced as it could have been. With that in mind, I need to read the screenplay because it might be one of the best I've seen. Each scene, character, line, word, was just phenomenal. Some of it could have been cut, extended, or altered, but what was there I thought was brilliant. Funny, tense, dramatic, poignant, it hit all the bases. 

The theater applauded at the end and was laughing throughout. You could sense the tension and uneasiness during a lot of the scenes, the dogs and the two fighting in particular.

Foxx was fantastic. He had a lot of doubters beforehand, and I don't know why because he's shown to be a good dramatic actor and can obviously be funny.. and he more than delivered as Django. Waltz and Leo were both great, as expected. Jackson had probably the best performance of his career.

I'd write up a lot more, but I'm exhausted. I'll need to re-watch it, but right now I'll say it's my favorite QT movie since Pulp Fiction... and considering that's in my top 3-5 all-time, it's a good place to be.
 
Leo was the villain in Titanic.

He was a peasant who gambled his way onto the ship, he conned his way into the life of the upper class, he STOLE Billy Zane's necklace and his woman, and I can't prove it.. but I'd bet if he wasn't on the ship, it wouldn't have hit the ice berg.

When I watch it, Billy Zane is the hero who has to suffer at the hands of that bum Leo.
 
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This is not Leo's first role as the bad guy...
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It is not, in fact it's not leo's first scene saying the N word. :nerd:



Either way, he was absolutely fantastic in this. I've always tried to find a reason to doubt him as an actor, but my man is a f....beast. :smokin:smokin
 
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Yea Leo did the damn thing.

Chris Waltz as Hands Landa in IG was one of the best roles I have ever seen in film but Leo easily stole the scene from him in this movie.
 
I had no idea I would laugh so much during this movie. Some parts probably weren't to P.C. but eff it Sam Jack's character had me falling out my seat! Great movie! Definitely get my $$$ again this weekend!
 
FlacoBey said:
Yeah I agree Inglorious Bastards was a lot more interesting to me.

I really like the last 20-30 minutes of the movie but besides that I got bored with it. I honestly expected a lot more, from all the hype it's getting.

It was just a good movie to me.
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FlacoBey said:
Yeah I agree Inglorious Bastards was a lot more interesting to me.

I really like the last 20-30 minutes of the movie but besides that I got bored with it. I honestly expected a lot more, from all the hype it's getting.

It was just a good movie to me.
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I can respect that.

Inglourious was a lot tighter, with every scene feeling crafted and constructed for tension. Some of that might be because his film editor, that he worked with on every single film, died before he started Django. But that's an apples and oranges thing. Just the nature of the bad guys, the world they inhabit and the genres Quentin wanted to portray meant that Django couldn't be as constructed and organized as that scene in the Nazi tavern or the movie theater finale or when Christoph catches Diane Kruger. Quentin had to reach just to make Calvin Candie as fancy and exotic of a slave-owner as he could.

That's comparing the quiet decadence of bourgie Nazi's in Paris to backwater hick plantation owners in the open range of 'count my teeth' Mississippi in 1860. And then you had the Nazi-hunters speaking different languages, with Quentin breaking down the convention that everyone's allowed to speak English in WWII movies as if that wasn't a major social signifier. Whereas with Django...I mean, they said the n-word with a hard r a lot? They meant black people. :lol:

That's just two different animals.
Django has a lot more in common with Kill Bill than Inglourious.

And when you really look at it...anyone could make a good case for any of Quentin's 8 movies being their favorites. He's that good.
 
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Big J 33 said:
Loved it. 

Probably my favorite of the year.

You could tell Tarantino missed Sally Menke, who had edited all of his films until this one since she died a few years ago, because it wasn't as smooth and evenly paced as it could have been. With that in mind, I need to read the screenplay because it might be one of the best I've seen. Each scene, character, line, word, was just phenomenal. Some of it could have been cut, extended, or altered, but what was there I thought was brilliant. Funny, tense, dramatic, poignant, it hit all the bases. 

The theater applauded at the end and was laughing throughout. You could sense the tension and uneasiness during a lot of the scenes, the dogs and the two fighting in particular.

Foxx was fantastic. He had a lot of doubters beforehand, and I don't know why because he's shown to be a good dramatic actor and can obviously be funny.. and he more than delivered as Django. Waltz and Leo were both great, as expected. Jackson had probably the best performance of his career.

I'd write up a lot more, but I'm exhausted. I'll need to re-watch it, but right now I'll say it's my favorite QT movie since Pulp Fiction... and considering that's in my top 3-5 all-time, it's a good place to be.
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Lets not get carried away.
 
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